This month’s panel for planning comes from an active flying club that’s lucky enough to operate in a region where it’s hardly ever IFR conditions. But when it was time to inject some modern capabilities to one of its older Cessna Skyhawks (a 1968 L model), the club wanted the ability to at least practice GPS approaches, while getting a taste of electronic flight instruments.
Of course, the airplane sported original round-gauge instruments mostly left over from when it was new, but the radio stack had been incrementally upgraded over the years. That meant retaining some of the existing gear in hopes of saving some work and money.
